The expert panel concluded its safety assessment of Ginkgo biloba ingredients, plus four other ingredients/groups, and advanced six tentative safety reports at its Sept. 24-25 meeting in Washington. Currently available data are insufficient to determine the safety of 82 brown algae ingredients, the panel says.
Botanical ingredient developments were among highlights of the Sept. 24-25 meeting of the Cosmetic Ingredient Review Expert Panel, which is focused increasingly on the safety of plant-derived substances due to rampant “natural” cosmetic demand.
The panel issued an insufficient data announcement for 82 brown algae ingredients, used in a growing number of cosmetic products...
Based on advice from its advisory committees, the UK's Food Standards Agency is encouraging businesses to meet an acceptable daily intake of 10mg CBD per day and a safe upper limit of 0.07mg THC per day.
Limited capacity and a two-to-three year timescale for reformulation could mean that many VMS supplements disappear from the market, warns EPPA partner Alexandra Bocquillion, speaking at the AESGP Annual Meeting in Warsaw, Poland.
The EU Council has introduced a key amendment to Article 51 (para 1, point e) of the new pharma directive: “A medicinal product shall be subject to medical prescription where it is an antimicrobial, unless intended for topical use.”
Bayer's Iberogast Advance's combination of six herbal ingredients may produce a synergistic effect that acts on multiple underlying issues contributing to digestive disorders like functional dyspepsia (FD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a recently published study suggests.
L’Oréal has signed an agreement to acquire the Color Wow professional styling brand for an undisclosed price.
An FDA “expert roundtable” on talc produced a new talking point on a potential drug safety risk, but the basis of that claim is difficult to determine.
Chinese API exports to US fell 24% year-on-year to $255m in May, when US and China called a truce in a previously escalating trade war.
